… FAGAN YELLIN’S BIOGRAPHY OF LEGENDARY “SLAVE GIRL” TO WIN $25,000 FREDERICK DOUGLASS PRIZE (New York, November 24, 2004) … a school for black refugees behind Union lines. The $25,000 annual award for the year’s best non-fiction book on … on February 24, 2005, as the capstone of Black History Month. Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the philanthropists …